XM radio host Howard Stern and Jane’s Addiction guitarist Dave Navarro got into a discussion on the morality of the Marines who urinated on the corpses of dead Taliban fighters. “You’re a nineteen year-old-kid, they put you in a situation– where you have the US Military, their job — they’re the ultimate defenders of this country; this is all born out of we were attacked, they blew up the World Trade Center.

During a Good Day New York segment on assigning letter grades to New York City food carts, Fox 5′s Steve Lacy was interrupted by a man performing the sacred art form of the Booey Bomb — yelling “Baba Booey” as loud as possible during a live newscast. The Booey Bomb itself isn’t cause for breaking news — when it happens, the anchors usually throw out a ‘tsk-tsk’ at the perpetrator, give a loud, exaggerated sigh, and say how unfortunate it is that some people can’t respect news casting. But Greg Kelly, anchor of Good Day, took a refreshingly different approach: he congratulated Lacy — who joined Fox 5 in August from a Massachusetts station — on popping his Booey Bomb cherry, then explained exactly what a Booey Bomb is.

CNN anchor Fredricka Whitfield got a bit of an unwelcome surprise this evening as an interview with who she thought was Gregory Porter, an American student recently arrested and released in Cairo, went awry. “Porter” described the fear of being arrested in a crowd in Tahrir Square, the happiness of hearing his mother’s voice after his first phone call… and then thanked “the North Shore Animal League and Baba Booey’s monkey nuts.”

Monday morning, as New York’s local media were scrambling to predict the next move for Occupy Wall Street protesters, FOX 5′s Good Day New York cut to reporter Antwan Lewis, who was stationed at Zuccotti Park, explaining how police had barricaded the area. In the middle of a sentence, a voice from off-screen shouted, “Baba Booey! Howard Stern

With Piers Morgan announcing on CNN last night that he is departing as a judge on NBC hit America’s Got Talent to focus on his prime-time talk show, the hunt for his replacement is officially on. and it took less than a day for Howard Stern, one of entertainment’s biggest names, to be thrown into the mix.

On her program last Friday, Rachel Maddow announced she thinks she has finally figured out this whole “Herman Cain” thing: it’s a performance art project. The bizarre events of today, hosted by Gloria Allred at the Friar’s Club and hijacked by the Howard Stern show, naturally, seemed to fit the theory, though not, Maddow explained today, in that Cain was behind the entire thing, but in that the art project was working so well, that Howard Stern was getting jealous.

Herman Cain‘s ongoing sexual harassment scandal may have won him a number of detractors, but at least one prominent voice on talk radio (besides Rush Limbaugh) is buying his side of the story: Howard Stern. Stern took some time on his program to praise Cain’s rendition of “Imagine There’s No Pizza” and, when asked by co-host Robin Quivers what he thought of the accusations, said decidedly, “I think it’s a smear job.”

Radio host Howard Stern is, shockingly, not the biggest fan of Texas Governor Rick Perry, and the GOP hopeful’s ties to a rather unfortunately-named hunting camp isn’t likely to change Stern’s mind about the politician. As Stern sees it, Perry’s visits to the so-called “Niggerhead” hunting camp in western Texas is a reason not only [...]

Tony Bennett apologized Tuesday for his comments that American foreign policy had helped cause the 9/11 attacks made on The Howard Stern Show, saying he was grateful to be an American and serve in its armed forces. “I am sorry if my statements suggested anything other than an expression of my love for my country,” [...]

In an interview with Howard Stern on Monday, legendary jazz singer Tony Bennett spoke out against American militarism, expressing opposition to war and questioning who the real terrorists were in the world. “But who are the terrorists? Are we the terrorists or are they the terrorists? Two wrongs don’t make a right,” said Bennett, adding, [...]

Influential poet and social critic Gil Scott-Heron died Friday afternoon, reportedly after falling ill following a trip to Europe. Scott-Heron is best known as a powerful voice of black culture, but his influence extends across color lines. His arguably most famous work, The Revolution Will Not Be Televised, was a prescient media critique whose title credo has embedded itself in the American cultural vocabulary. My favorite Scott-Heron piece, though, is the even more prescient health care-and-taxes rant Whitey on the Moon.

Forbes has come out with its annual list of the world’s most powerful celebrities – its “Celebrity 100.” Strewn among the requisite Hollywood actors, pop singers, supermodels and major athletes are a few names that are likely all too familiar to regular Mediaite readers.

During an appearance on Fox News this weekend Sarah Palin was asked about comedian Kathy Griffin and her frequent jokes/attacks on not just Palin, but her daughter’s as well. The former Alaskan Governor called Griffin a “50 year-old adult bully”before requesting that Griffin “leave (her) kids alone.” Well Griffin visited Howard Stern this morning, and made clear that she has no intention of leaving Willow Palin out of her “cross-hairs.”

The proverbial King of All Media, Howard Stern, visited Jon Stewart‘s Daily Show Monday night, and naturally the conversation turned to Charlie Sheen. “Who is more insane, Charlie Sheen or Glenn Beck?”

Stern said he’d made an effort to reach out to Sheen, getting his cell phone number and giving the troubled sitcom star a call.

The Tonight Show host Jay Leno spoke out on a range of topics from David Letterman to retirement, but most interesting may have been his response to recent accusations from radio host Howard Stern that Leno is a comic thief. In defending himself from the charge, Leno also came to the defense of another nemesis, Conan O’Brien, when O’Brien came under a somewhat similar attack.

Howard Stern – radio host and media personality who wears the other half of Piers Morgan‘s broken heart friendship necklace – has been tricked by a ChristWire story… just like Rachel Maddow was a few weeks ago.

On HLN’s Joy Behar, director Kevin Smith talks about his decision to stop appearing on Howard Stern‘s radio show, saying it’s not because the two stars are having “a feud,” but rather, he’s just not willing to put up with what he described as Stern’s bullying tactics. “I’m too old for that,” he tells host Joy Behar in an interview set to air Friday.

In the ongoing “feud” between “King of All Media” Howard Stern and the self-designated challenger to that throne, CNN‘s Piers Morgan, Morgan appeared on Stern’s radio show in an apparent attempt to end one war, but to potentially open battles on a new front. Dismissing some of his cable competition as boring and predictable, Morgan declared, “I don’t have to turn on Rachel Maddow or Glenn Beck to know what they’re going to be saying.”

Last night on Late Show, David Letterman was joined by Howard Stern and the two had a lively conversation. While many people have reported on the many Jay Leno disses that Stern was dishing out, at this point, hearing either of these guys talk trash about Leno is pretty old hat. The amazing thing is that everyone reporting on that missed a potentially huge story that came right after when it appeared that Letterman offhandedly announced that he’d retire in two years. Is Letterman leaving the show in 2013?

Howard Stern is well aware that Piers Morgan is trying to start a publicity-generating feud with him, and Stern doesn’t mind participating, but he does worry that Piers is embarrassing himself with his constant Tweeting and with his delusions of grandeur. In preparation of Piers appearing on Stern’s radio show Monday, Stern spent some time today alternating between ridiculing Piers and giving him advice on how to improve his show.

What a difference a few weeks makes. It seems like only yesterday that new CNN host Piers Morgan and Howard Stern were best of friends celebrating Morgan’s great ratings with Stern as his guest. However, with Morgan’s ratings tumble, Stern is now unleashing his true thoughts about Morgan who he finds a “little bit strange”

Jerry Springer appeared on Howard Stern’s radio show yesterday and the conversation got around to Air America. Stern then asked why liberal talk shows never do as well and Springer had an interesting answer: “Because the Liberals won.”

The second night of Piers Morgan Tonight brought its host for the first time into his new set, and face-to-face with the King of All Media Howard Stern. Ahead of the interview’s airing Tuesday night, Piers Morgan took to Twitter to tweak his competitor at Fox News, Sean Hannity: “Msg to @seanhannity – if I don’t smack you down tonight with Howard, I’ll take you on Thursday with Ricky Gervais. love Piers x.”

Tomorrow night on Piers Morgan‘s new CNN show, an interview with the always unpredictable Howard Stern will air. Today though some of the controversial comments from the interview are leaking out and they include Stern repeating and amplifying his dislike for NBC‘s late night host Jay Leno.

Yesterday, Howard Stern had some harsh words for Sarah Palin about the tone of her video speech from Wednesday morning. Like many of Palin’s detractors, Stern felt that the former Governor focussed too much on herself and not enough on the actual victims. However, unlike most of the other criticisms of the video we’ve heard, Stern’s aforementioned words weren’t just harsh; a couple of them were those that one doesn’t use in polite company.